Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross-slab
Eochaill (bar. árainn), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Eochaill (bar. árainn)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.13249, -9.68445
- SMR number
- GA111-002004-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
This broken limestone cross-slab (visible H 0.68m; max. Wth 0.5m; T 0.13m) is set upright in the W half of a children’s burial ground (GA111-002005-). When recorded in 1969 it was set upside down in the ground and in 1981 it was lying flat on the ground. A sketch from this time indicates that the base (Wth 0.5m) was wider than the shaft (Wth 0.37m) and the overall length of the fragment was recorded as 1.9m (information from Prof. Rynne). Two parallel lines on the slab probably indicate the shaft of a two-line cross. (Higgins 1987, vol. 2, 329, no. 55)
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 12 February 2016
This monument was taken into Ownership under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 - National Monument 43.
References
Higgins, J.G. 1987 The Early Christian cross slabs, pillar stones and related monuments of County Galway, Ireland, 2 vols. British Archaeological Reports, International Series 375. Oxford.
Nearby in the register
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Cross-inscribed pillarunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.